Osama Bin Dead

[Howey]

Only in Texas? Not really...but it's certainly par for the course...

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas — A Southeast Texas school has put a teacher on leave pending an investigation into an allegation that he asked an American-born Muslim student if she was grieving because her “uncle” had died, referring to Osama bin Laden, a school district spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The teacher, whom officials of the Clear Creek school district did not identify, is accused of offending the American-born female student Monday during a ninth-grade algebra class at Clear Brook High School in Friendswood, located 23 miles southeast of Houston.

[FooFa]

Only in Texas? Not really...but it's certainly par for the course...

That's a great example of a misplaced inappropriate and hateful mindset that breeds more callousness and cynical overtones being accepted towards an entire race and I'm not an Arab fan. The reason is that  when I see people from Arabian countries it makes me think about how in my view. we would have been a lot better off if the trade structure and manufacturing sector/trade deficits etc... could have struck a balance with globalization where as in the 50's and 60's, many countries were strong and thriving with mostly common sense restrictions and policies that pretty much kept everyone happy. We might have been better off without planes. But I wouldn't think of saying something to a child of any race that was insulting and had absolutely nothing to do with their existence, good, bad or indifferent. It really pisses me off when I hear a parent speaking with an 8 year old as if the child is an emotional equal and fully comprehends the attitude. I'm not suggesting there's not a need for discipline and guidance, I'm saying that many parents are incapable of the enormous responsibility they signed up for.

Posted by: lil mike  

Wow.  I'm really sorry you let youself get so twisted that you think that.  You know, I don't think your lying.  I think after a full day of hyperpartisan frenzy, not to mention two and a half years of unlearning how to think critically, I've no doubt you really did read my post and saw nothing but BUSH BUSH and MORE BUSH.

heh.

Anyway, you've convinced me that there is literally nothing I could have written that you would not have seen the spectre of Bush in my words.  All I can do is roll my eyes.

As an almost impartial observer, I see truth in what's being said here. It goes both ways and sometimes three ways. The three of you obviously have a deep seeded love/hate game that's not as serious as it appears to me at times. My thinking is that if you want to move away from that being your constant unchangeable m.o. which is not entertaining...Instead of beating the dead horses that Jack Kirpatrick and Shana Alexander covered on 60 Minutes in 1970:Have a Sweden spirited thread or section where issues, policies. whatever, can only be discussed based on verifiable facts of x event;maybe recent history that's not still being investigated. Something that goes deeper than a battle of threads of the day type thing and anything, even if it's only one thread...that stops the endless cycle. It's like if my music stuff was only about my faves or was any one thing, it wouldn't have gone anywhere.

[ekg]

Boo Hoo! So Bush refused to attend today's ceremony because Obama hurt his itty bitty feelings?


Umm...yeah. He did, Dubya:
 

what?

that can't be true..

I was pretty proud of him for not going.. I thought he felt that maybe since Obama was in office,it was his big day and all.. I thought it was pretty altruistic of him

[ekg]

Wow.  I'm really sorry you let youself get so twisted that you think that.  You know, I don't think your lying.  I think after a full day of hyperpartisan frenzy, not to mention two and a half years of unlearning how to think critically, I've no doubt you really did read my post and saw nothing but BUSH BUSH and MORE BUSH.

heh.

Anyway, you've convinced me that there is literally nothing I could have written that you would not have seen the spectre of Bush in my words.  All I can do is roll my eyes.

 

sure, you could have included any time after 2008 in your specificity..or not been so specific to only mention the Bush years as the years you were just so proud of the intel community..but ahhh, that wasn't what you were going for was it?

as for my "full day of hyperpartisan frenzy"  that's pretty funny, given the timeline of my posts and yours.. especially since I didn't get partsian until after you did, twice..  but why let facts like time get in your way.. right?

[ekg]

heh.. we're fucking awesome!

Accompanying the Navy Seals who completed the bin Laden mission was a faithful four-legged fighter. The trained military dog, either a German Shepherd or a Belgian Malinois, was attached to a human Seal and lowered from a helicopter into the compound. Wearing canine armor, he went along to sniff out hidden explosives or, if necessary, find a secret room of bin Laden's.

Canines often play a significant role in military operations as they can crawl into small spaces, find enemy soldiers and report back unnoticed with TV footage from a camera attached to their heads. Their primary functions "are finding explosives and conducting searches and patrols," Maj. Wes Ticer, a spokesman for the United States Special Operations Command, told the New York Times, but  Ticer said that many times dogs save "the lives of the Special Operations Forces with whom they operate."

The NYT reports that according to Gen. David H. Petraus, commander of United States forces in Afghanistan, that dogs are useful because “the capability they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine.”

German Shepherds and Belgian Mailnois dogs have the skills best-suited to the job (like sense of smell, courage, athleticism, endurance and intelligence) and thus are most commonly used in the military. It just goes to show a dog is a man's best friend — as long as he's on your side.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/05/canine-of-the-year-military-dog-reportedly-assisted-in-bin-laden-raid/#ixzz1LZXRFVbP

even our dogs are bad ass..

[ekg]

oh yeah... so I googled 'canine armor'...












































HA!

[44nutman]

heh.. we're fucking awesome!

even our dogs are bad ass..

Pretty interesting from Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_warfare

[ekg]

yeah.. but did they have armor and repel out of helicopters

[lil mike]

sure, you could have included any time after 2008 in your specificity..or not been so specific to only mention the Bush years as the years you were just so proud of the intel community..but ahhh, that wasn't what you were going for was it?

Well soooorrry about leaving out the full details of of that intel scoop when I just posted a few lines.

So, great job NSA!

as for my "full day of hyperpartisan frenzy"  that's pretty funny, given the timeline of my posts and yours.. especially since I didn't get partsian until after you did, twice..  but why let facts like time get in your way.. right?

I almost thought about asking you to show me the two "partisan posts" I supposedly posted before you got partisan (  ).  But since one of them is bound to be the post that I reposted above... wow whats the point?

[Howey]

Al-Awlaki narrowly escapes attack in Yemen:

The U.S. launched a drone strike in Yemen on Thursday aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but he evaded the missile, Yemeni and U.S. officials said.

The attack came days after a U.S. Navy SEALs team killed Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan. Had Thursday's strike succeeded, the U.S. would have killed two of the most-wanted terrorists in a week.

Mr. Awlaki has emerged as a leading charismatic front-man of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group the U.S. considers the world's most active terror organization. With bin Laden's death, some officials believe Mr. Awlaki and the Yemen-based group now represent the gravest threat to the U.S.

He has been linked to at least three major incidents: the Ft. Hood shootings, the Christmas 2009 plot to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger plane and a plan to blow up cargo planes.

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Well soooorrry about leaving out the full details of of that intel scoop when I just posted a few lines.

no you're not.. your intention was to draw a specific link to a specific timeline.. mission accomplished..

So, great job NSA!

again..

I almost thought about asking you to show me the two "partisan posts" I supposedly posted before you got partisan (  ).  But since one of them is bound to be the post that I reposted above... wow whats the point?

right here..where you started the whole argument..

Since the only topic you guys seem to be interested in is not "UBL is dead , yah!" but Obama needs more credit,

It just seemed weird to me that protecting Obama was your first reaction.  I didn't mention Dubya, and if I didn't, no one on this board would.  And your reply is a prefect example of this.

Honestly, you really only see this as a political opportunity for Obama don't you?  There really is no other meaning to you.

Facinating.

take a look at the 1st.. and scroll up.. then tell me just how hyper-uber-super-duper-extreme partsian I had been all day.. so much so in fact that it made you sad..

[lil mike]

no you're not.. your intention was to draw a specific link to a specific timeline.. mission accomplished..

again..


right here..where you started the whole argument..


take a look at the 1st.. and scroll up.. then tell me just how hyper-uber-super-duper-extreme partsian I had been all day.. so much so in fact that it made you sad..

I think that's about the easiest challenge you've ever tossed out.

I've been looking all over the webs and it seems as tho Obama had nothing at all to with this, it was all GWB..    some on the Hannity forum feel Obama has so much in common with Osama that it's a wonder he ordered the hit at all.. then again, that was probably because he didn't want Osama stealing his US-sharia-institution glory..

it's beyond sad the extremes people will go to the dismiss this President. They can't even take this moment to rejoice as Americans..

to these scumbags I say, if Obama's to 'blame' for everything since he took office, then he gets the credit also..

Now the conspiracy of the body being buried at at sea will start and we'll have new 'deathers' any minute now..

[ekg]

I think that's about the easiest challenge you've ever tossed out.

a swing anddd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa miss..  awwwwwwwwwwwwww the crowd is not happy.

don't you like how you had to cut off the praise first to get to that part? HA! you can't have that in there or it doesn't play right in your reality..

anyway..That wasn't me being partisan, that was me expressing disgust with the shitheads on Hannity's forum and elsewhere on the web and what they were saying..  I came here and bitched about they were saying and said...

it's beyond sad the extremes people will go to the dismiss this President. They can't even take this moment to rejoice as Americans..

because it was pretty shitty the things they were saying.. all before I even had a chance to get partsian, it was already out there, attacking me whereever  I read the comment sections.. but, I didn't jump in, I came here and vented on the assholes and said they were sad for not being Americans for one day.. and logged off for about 9 hrs to let it all calm down

funny, you should have agreed with that post since that seems to be your exact complaint with me.. but nope, you went all lil mike and started calling us all out shit.. so got anything else of that hyper-uber-super-duper-extreme partsian you've attached to me?

[lil mike]

a swing anddd aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa miss..  awwwwwwwwwwwwww the crowd is not happy.

don't you like how you had to cut off the praise first to get to that part? HA! you can't have that in there or it doesn't play right in your reality..

anyway..That wasn't me being partisan, that was me expressing disgust with the shitheads on Hannity's forum and elsewhere on the web and what they were saying..  I came here and bitched about they were saying and said...

it's beyond sad the extremes people will go to the dismiss this President. They can't even take this moment to rejoice as Americans..

because it was pretty shitty the things they were saying.. all before I even had a chance to get partsian, it was already out there, attacking me whereever  I read the comment sections.. but, I didn't jump in, I came here and vented on the assholes and said they were sad for not being Americans for one day.. and logged off for about 9 hrs to let it all calm down

funny, you should have agreed with that post since that seems to be your exact complaint with me.. but nope, you went all lil mike and started calling us all out shit.. so got anything else of that hyper-uber-super-duper-extreme partsian you've attached to me?

Your argument was, that you didn't get "partisan" until I did.  Now, it's you didn't get partisan until some people on a Hannity forum did?

I guess that's the thing.  When I heard about UBL's death, my first instinct wasn't to check out comments at Think Progress or Democratic Underground, or check and see what Michael Moore's take was on it was (and good thing to, considering what his comments turned out to be).  I was interested in the actual story, in how he was taken down, the mission, the intelligence background of how they found him after all these years...

And of course to celebrate a really great victory in the global war on terror (can we call it that again or is it still "man caused disasters?").

I felt like chanting USA USA!

So no, my first instinct wasn't to scour the web in order to find jerky comments from political opponents that showed they care more about partisanship than a real victory for our country.

I just had to come here to find that.

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Your argument was, that you didn't get "partisan" until I did.  Now, it's you didn't get partisan until some people on a Hannity forum did?

my argument has not changed, it has remained that that I wasn't partsian in that post you copied.. , I didn't get that way until you accused me of being partsian all day long.. I had done nothing all day long except throw out some congrats,throw out a quote, thrown some love to HRC, Re-enacted a phone call, and said release the photo.. then you and your witch hunt came along looking to be a dick to anyone and everyone who even mention Obama..

Not that you have any credibility in this, you lost that over in the Libya thread by accusing me there of being suspicious and unbelievable all so you didn't have to admit you made a reading errors.. and here, since you are the one who considers one post at 744am and another 8hrs later at 455pm a "full day of hyperpartisan frenzy"  you have no standing either..

But, we'll give it the old college try again anyway.. so let's try it this way..

Me:Bob said it's cold.. I can't believe Bob's cold.. it's 107 outside, how is the hell is he cold..

you:so, you're saying that you're cold.

uh no, me telling you what Bob told me, isn't me being anything. It's me telling you what Bob told me.